Fruit-drier



(No Model.) i I J. H. HUNTER.

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PATENT OFFICE.

lJAMES HALE HUNTER, E EAST ooRINTH, VERMONT.

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SPECIFICATION formingparty of Letters Patent No. 287,542, dated October 30, 1883.

v Application mea August 24,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES H. HUNTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Corinth, in the county of Orange and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Fruit-Evaporator, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to fruitfevaporators;` and it has for its object to produce a device v which shall possess superior advantages in point of Simplicity, convenience, and general efficiency, and which may be conveniently used upon an ordinary kitchenstove.

To this end my invention consists Yin certain improvements in the construction of the said device, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out vin the claims.

Inl the drawings hereunto annexed, Figure lis a perspective view, Fig..2 is a vertical sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view, of one of the drying-trays removed from the evaporator.

The same letters refer to the sameparts in all the gures.

A in the drawings designates a box or casing, suitably constructed of sheet metal, and provided'with a door, B, in front, through which access' may be had to the interior. The bottom of the casing A is double, and consists of two plates, C and D, arranged some distance above the lower edge of the casing, and extending' from the front of the same toward the rear, terminating some distance in front ofthe rear wall. The front wall, E, is provided with openings F F, forthe admission of air betwgep the plates C D. The front wall;` E,

and sidewalls, G, of the casing are provided with hinged doors H H below the bottom, and the top of the casing has a Ventilating-openino I. f f Y aBlihewbox or casing A is provided with a series of shelves, J J extending from near the front toward therear wall, and terminating` Some distance in front of the latter. These shelves support the drying-trays K, which are made of perforated metal or wire-netting, and which are provided at their rear edges with downwardly-projecting anges L, the lower edges of which are connected with'the front of the trays by inclined braces M. The shelves J are arranged in a slanting position, slanting downwardly toward the rear wall, as shown.

from the outside, through the openings F F between the bottom plates, C D, where it is cends, causing it to pass under the said trays, up through the fruit deposited thereon, and' out. The entire amount of heat may be directed to any one of the trays bypushingit back as far as it will `go and moving the remaining trays forward; or the heat may be regulated. and directed to each tray, as required, inthe samemanner. p

My improved fruit-drier is simple `in construction, inexpensive, and may be easily and conveniently manipulated. Owing to the construction and arrangement, as described, the, moisture-laden air from one tray will not come in contact with the fruit upon the remaining trays, and there is therefore 'no danger of the fruit being cooked instead of dried, asis frequently the case in the smaller-Sized driers intended especially for family use.

" heated, and up at lthe back of the casing. By pushing the drying-trays back beyond' the shelves, they will deflect the hot airL as it as- Ifclaim as my invention and desire to se- 1. In a fruit-drier, the herein-described casing, having the front door, B, bottom plates, O D, terminating in front of the rear wall, openings F, slanting shelves J, terminating in front of the rear wall, Ventilating-opening I, and hinged doors H H, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.. Y

2. Ina fruit-drier, the combination, with the herein-described casing, having the slanting shelves J, terminating in front of the rear wall, of the herein-described drying-trays, having downwardlyextending fianges at their rear edges, and inclined braces connecting the lower edges of said flanges with the front ofthe trays, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

GEO. F. WHITEORD, f BYRON E. DEWEY.

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